Metabolic Origin of c-26 and c-27 of Isofucosterol in Tissue Cultures ofCatharanthus roseus
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Natural Product Letters
- Vol. 11 (3) , 207-210
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10575639808044948
Abstract
Feeding studies of [1,2-13C2]acetate to cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus revealed that the pro-S and pro-R methyl groups on C-25 of isofucosterol originate from C-2 and C-6 of mevalonate, respectively.Keywords
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